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Endemic

Reviewed By David C. Dugdale III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department…more »

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Endemic means a disease occurs frequently, and with predictable regularity, in a specific area or population. For example, chicken pox occurs at a high and predictable rate among American school children.

Date Last Reviewed: 02/21/2009
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